Re: booting ubuntu without a monitor

Councill, David wrote:

Debian Etch, on the other hand, did everything I wanted. Except the vnc
consistently died after about a one minute connection with a kdm bug.
Kyle's suggestion on the vncserver should work - the bug is in the
default main session. Using vnc4server and creating a session, I can
connect to the new session fine in my tests. And so I might go this
route if there are no other ideas. The computer at present is running
Debian lenny (5).

In short, I want a headless remote computer - no monitor, mouse, or
keyboard. I need to be able to access it remotely but the programs I
need to run require a GUI.

So far -

Ubuntu 8 - will not boot up without a monitor, stopping kdm allows it to

I do have Ubuntu on a headless system, but this is very surprising to
me. I expect it to boot up properly (as Lenny does).

boot to a command line, vnc and ssh can access it BUT X cannot be
started and no GUI available with vnc. Hooking a monitor up I can
acknowledge the prompt and get booted in.

Can you paste the contents of your vnc config file from your home
directory? It is probably in ~/.vnc<something>, or perhaps in
~/.xtightvnc (not sure, so you will have to look around a bit).




Ubuntu 9 - same except the low graphics mode no longer allows the user
to bypass and login, restart is required.

Again, very surprising.


Debian Lenny - with no monitor, it will boot up to the command line
login, no need to disable kdm or gdm (that's progress). VNC and ssh work

In my case, gdm start successfully regardless of a monitor connected to
the system.


fine on the monitor-less system. But I have yet to figure out how to get
GUI access in vnc session, startx will not work.

Again, could you paste the contents of of your vnc startup file.



Debian Etch - booted fine without monitor, vnc accesses desktop but
errors out within a minute. Tests with a virtual machine indicate

I have never experienced this and I cannot say much about this.


vnc4server will get me past this bug so unless I can resolve the above
problems, I'll try this next again.

I hope this is clear. Sure I might be able to workaround having a GUI

Am I right in understanding that by GUI you do not mean the login
screen? And that by GUI you mean a window manager and a desktop environment?

Regards.



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